Congratulations, Project 2025’s goal of eroding trust in government institutions worked on you!

Like, you do realize that not having this shit would just give the corporations even more free reign, right? Don’t start that shit about “but they’re so bad already!” yes they are, but it is always possible for them to get worse.

We aren’t going to just magically stumble into a working system by removing one singular piece of the broken puzzle. Or even by removing all the pieces with no further plan. Proper, good change takes a shit ton of planning and hard work, not just venting frustration or posting “hot takes” online.

You can go do that now, no one’s stopping you.

While being forced to travel literal lightyears away from everyone they ever knew, and potentially outliving everyone they care about due to relativity shenanigans.

May want to edit that to blank out the church name and two street signs.

Literally a plot point in Dresden Files. MC is a wizard who lives in Chicago doing private eye work. Regularly carries a blasting rod (wand) and a revolver. One big wizard gets taken out by a sniper rifle fired by a demon. He has semi-regular backup from non magical friends who are just well armed.

A regular human mafioso who is just so good at being a conniving and ruthless piece of shit that he can hold his own with the magic folk is a recurring character. Your spells don’t mean too much if four goons get the drop on you with a metal pipe when you weren’t prepared.

Maybe, just maybe, if you don’t have any idea how any of this shit works you shouldn’t run off half cocked sounding alarm bells?

Each Lemmy site (instance) is a separate thing with its own admins. Underneath each instance, there are multiple communities, each with their own moderators.

Admins decide instance wide rules, and decide which other Lemmy instances they wish to federate with (host content from). Moderators decide on any additional rules within their own communities.

So… go to that post you linked to, use the report button. It will send a report to the community moderators, the admins of the instance it was posted on, and the admins of your own instance.

So, that’s a community on sopuli.xyz

Report it to their moderation instead of making three threads about it on lemmy.world using an 18 minute old account.

If you have reported it and gotten no response, post receipts.

That last row though.

Yeah, awful.systems has stupidly heavy handed moderation.

I mean this softly, but I’m going to guess you haven’t used OneDrive recently, and haven’t used it where it’s been set up in a competent manner. The default settings absolutely are not conpetent, espiecally for how messy computers for personal use get.

My workplace uses OneDrive to sync a specific set of user profile folders so we approximate having profiles and files that follow us without everyone needing a personal folder on a network drive that mounts at login.

The only issues we’ve had are profiles auto-downloading too mant of peoples files and eating drives on shared machines (so you just have your meeting room computers wipe all profiles every reboot and schedule reboots nightly), and I’ve had some issues where OneNote hadn’t actually synced the notebook back to the cloud before I closed on one machine and opened on a different machine so I lost some notes.

Beyond that, it’s handled even situations where I have the same file open siniltaneously on multiple machines smoothly. Syncs between login on multiple machines take 3 minutes max, and I can force it faster if I really need by pausing and resuming the sync.

I’m sure there’s situations it’s still not suited for, like editing and syncing large monolithic files (think video files over 1GB a piece). It probably sucks big time on personal machines where you’re going to have a complete mess of every file type imaginable tossed in one big unorganized heap.

But configured correctly, for general business use, it can work very well.

I would be shocked if this hasn’t had some set of controls to disable it in Group Policy for months now.

This is just rent seeking against Home users.

People with One Drive through corporate Azure sjbscriptions (rather than the free “you have a microsoft login” tier) already have fairly robust controls available for handling and securing private data. There’s even special Azure tiers for government work that are even further secured.

This is only going to impact home users and conpanies without strong IT teams. Which is an egregious amount of people, don’t get me wrong. It’s also a horrible anti-consumer move. But this isn’t “Microsoft fucks over their golden calf: business users”.

With the upcoming restrictions on third-party apps that Google has announced maybe? It’ll be easier to get from Play, and may not be available otherwise at all.

AI is not looked upon kindly in most places on Lemmy, for good reason.

Far as your problem goes, learn how to read? The error message doesn’t have too much extraneous shit in it.

Ignore the start part, as that’s clearly talking about the HTML, the building blocks of the site.

Quota exceeded in ‘storySoFar’. Whatever it’s storing as storySoFar is too big. You aren’t the developer, but that’s a pretty clear variable name. The story so far exceeds the quota. The story so far is too big.

I swear, reading error messages shouldn’t be a god damn super power. I’ve never used this slop generator in my life, I just read your error message.

In short it’s hard to do right.

It would have to be in a way that doesn’t chain you to one central identification server that could ban everyone, but also still handles moderation actions properly.

People would probably also want their identity to be portable (movable to other source instances) which will mean different things to different fediverse services in terms of what would move, and things like handling username collisions. We can’t even lift and shift between instances of the same service yet, whete it should be a simple one to one.

Most of all, a huge part of the conceptual point of the fediverse is that you should be able to interact with the rest of it from any point inside it (with exceptions for intentional defederation between some servers). On a conceptual level, you shouldn’t need to create a login for mastodon when you can post to mastodon from lemmy, and vice versa. You create your login on the type of fediverse system you want the interface of, on a server instance you agree with the moderation policies of, and then you interact with whatever you want from there.

In practice it’s not so simple, but that’s largely seen by the various devs as a software interoperability thing, not a sort of single sign on identity thing.

Like games on the playground: My sword is super strong! Well mine is stronger! My sword gets twice as strong as the strongest sword near it! Mine gets three times as strong as the strongest sword near it! Well since my sword keeps getting stronger than yours, its power becomes infinite! Well mine becomes infinite first!

But with tragedies.

I broke my toe while my life partner passed away! Well I broke my toe and my arm while mine died, and they never healed right! Losers, I dealt with all of that and tapeworms all at once! Well, my loved one had dementia, lost all memories of their loved ones, and I got a paper cut!

Feel like there’s some ripe ground there for a comedy sketch, or a Cyanide and Happiness Depression Week strip.

I suspect that in the near future, DNA tests will be done as a matter of course to test the baby for genetic diseases

This is pretty much the standard for IVF. You might be able to waive it, but it’s standard process to test for chromosomal abnormalities before implantation. You can extend that to test for other markers if you have money to burn.

Hopefully it becomes affordable and standard across the board.

He and his family were caught doing pretty serious charity fraud, iirc, amd he kept throwing out completely absurd excuses rather than owning up to it.

Entirely wrong youtuber. Sorry.

Sounds like it sucks at every level. From what I’ve dealt with on just software/drivers:

You want to use scan to email through anything that isn’t a fully open, no auth, anonymous SMTP relay? Go fuck yourself.

Wait… we changed our mind. We’ll totally support SMTP authentication, but with an arbitrary undocumented limit on the password length we can store, which is definitely shorter than the password length requirements for most SMTP relay suites. Certificates? Holy shit are you from the future?

Or you can scan to network share, but I hope you enjoy finding all the hidden catches and caveats that are completely undocumented!

You want an option so people have to log in at the printer itself to release their print job? Enjoy six different interfaces for five different underlying standards for how that works across two different manufacturers. And we reserve the right to just stop supporting that feature or change it entirely with any firmware or driver update. And if there’s a mismatch between the driver and firmware then we’ll just make the print spooler/job queue shit itself and require manual intervention to continue printing.

You want our driver to properly communicate to end user software the paper sizes it supports? If it supports double sided printing or not? How it will collate multiple copies? Man, we can’t even care enough to indicate to software if we’re Black and White or Color. Best we can do is completely ignore the options you picked through your software and our driver and just do whatever we think is best. That’s a good compromise, right?

For the price of these god damn enterprise mfds, there’s no excuse.

I’ve entertained this concept before, but it presents issues. What if a piece of evidence needs to be edited? To protect someone’s identity (say an SA victim) or even just to cut an originally 1 hour stretch of security camera footage to the relevant 5 minutes.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons for editing photos or videos, even when being used as evidence. And I’m sure there’s ways around this using trusted chain of custody methods.

But I’ve seen this “just hash it and store the hash in an immutable, publicly verifiable manner (the actual use case for blockchain)” brought up before for this and stuff like governments signing recordings of their officials, and every time I have to point out that it ignores relevant key use cases.

I’m sure there’s ways to make this concept work, it isn’t a bad idea, but it’s never going to be quite so simple.

It’s the fact that US police regularly break up properly registered and approved peaceful protests by “less than lethal” force when they get to be incovenient for [insert power here]. Not live rounds, but “less than lethal” munitions. Rubber bullets, which often cause injury and sometimes death anyway. Tasers. Pepper spray. Tear gas smoke grenades.

You can find a decent amount of pictures and video of police pepper spraying protestors calmly sitting cross legged on the ground.

There are also psychological tactics they use to try and break up protests that often have the fun side benefit of fomenting response from otherwise peaceful protestors that is easily labeled as violent/threatening/resisting. At protests that camp in an area overnight, they will use flashing lights and loudspeakers playing audio specially designed to tap into anxiety centers of the brain to keep the protesters from resting. Literally borrowing some of the tactics our intelligence agencies used against the vietcong. They will “bottle” or “kettle” protestors, surrounding groups with riot shield equipped cops and squishing them into smaller and smaller space until the protester have to push back so people won’t get literally crushed, then out come the batons.

The threat of police brutality is always there. With significant chance that there will be no legal recourse. Judges play softball (sometimes literally) with police here. Manslaughter in the line of duty? 3 months paid vacation, then we transfer you to another local police force somewhere they won’t recognize your name. And decades of news media jumping at the chance to stir people up has cemented these fears in the public mind.

But here’s the thing: the amount this happens is just barely rare enough that it’s not international rights org level shit. And when it does happen, usually the police can justify it with some imagery or video of violent protesters.

So it’s rare, just always possible it could escalate. If it does there’s no rel recourse, and the news makes people feel that it’s a more likely outcome than it is. Peaceful protests that go fine don’t make the news.

What also isn’t covered by the media is how to plan and take effective action despite these risks, or effective action from the past, so many Americans just see the pipeline as being directly from public peaceful protest to some sort of freedom fighter in active combat.